Efficiency analysis of a hall thruster operating with krypton and xenon

41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Linnell, Jesse A ^a,b   Gallimore, Alec D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIVERGENCE; DIAGNOSTIC MEASUREMENTS; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; FOCUS OF ATTENTION; HALL THRUSTERS; MAGNETIC FIELD TOPOLOGY; PERFORMANCE MODEL; SPECIFIC IMPULSE;

KRYPTON; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NASA; PROPELLANTS; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

XENON;

EID: 84869723737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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